Our arrival in the offing caused some little apprehension.

glory of that body to a great height even in its infancy. But Queen

Anne being snatched suddenly from the world, the Whigs were resolved

to ruin the protectors of the intended academy, a circumstance that

was of the most fatal consequence to polite literature. The members

of this academy would have had a very great advantage over those who

first formed that of the French, for Swift, Prior, Congreve, Dryden,

Pope, Addison, &c. had fixed the English tongue by their writings;

whereas Chapelain, Colletet, Cassaigne, Faret, Perrin, Cotin, our